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June 22, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 22, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Still thinking here today about Nancy Pelosi on the new planet Stupider.
Nancy Pelosi.
Keep waiting for her to say, and they had to claim executive privilege on the documents in order to see what's in the documents.
We had to pass healthcare to find out what was in it.
It's Friday.
Are you ready?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
And the days keep rolling on.
The weeks keep passing by.
And everything continues to mount up.
I can't tell you how excited I am to have you here on the program today, each and every day.
I actually wish everybody could get up and love what they do as much as I love what I do.
Hope you find that someday.
Open Line Friday is very simple.
Pretty much when we go to the phones, the callers get to talk about whatever they wish.
There are very, very few restrictions on Friday.
So it makes for what I've always thought is a great, great opportunity for callers to take the program in directions it normally doesn't go, to avail themselves of the opportunity to ask personal, probing questions that's none of their business, or to discuss issues that they think need to be discussed.
That haven't been, although I don't know what that would be.
We cover everything it matters here.
If I don't talk about it, it doesn't matter, and everybody knows that by now.
So have at it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you heard this.
Uh, Justin Bieber is.
Is that how you pronounce the name?
Justin Bieber fell down a flight of stairs, was unconscious for five minutes.
The boyfriend singer also suffered a concussion after slamming into a glass wall in Paris, slammed his head into a glass wall during a concert in Paris earlier this month.
Now clearly, concerts are getting out of hand.
We got concussions going on, we got we got artists falling downstairs and I think it might be time to seriously considering appointing a federal advisory board here to examine the safety of these pop and rock concerts.
I mean you start suffering concussions despite all the safety precautions that are involved.
I mean, look at Justin Bieber.
He has security fixed the venues he plays.
That didn't protect him.
Did not protect him from the physical dangers of the rough and tumble world of live entertainment.
This kid's beating himself up performing for these little.
What are they?
What do you little teenagers throwing their underwear at him?
What do you call them?
I have a forget it.
There's a term for it.
We don't know how often these things happen.
This just happened to be reported in the Bieber case.
But whenever a rock star opens his mouth, you conclude that there's brain damage just by virtue of listening to him speak.
There has to be untold dangers out there.
Just suggesting that it might be time to look into banning concerts.
Justin Bieber.
I mean, that's intolerable.
There's a story today by David Paul Kuhn.
Oh, we have a gay community update coming up on the program.
In fact, you know what?
Let's do it.
Let's just do the game.
A trumpet fanfare means it's time for an update.
And we're going way back to the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
Our old buddy Klaus Nomi and the vocal portrayal of You Don't Know Me.
It's the EIB Network.
Klaus Nomi, very defiant there.
Ah, yes, Klaus Nomi, official gay community update them.
Looks exactly like he sounds, folks.
Last Friday, they had the first ever gay pride reception at the White House.
A bunch of gay activists were there, obviously, gay pride reception.
A group from Philadelphia showed up, made a beeline for the portrait of Ronald Reagan, and flipped him off.
And there are pictures at Glenn Beck's website, The Blaze of the Pictures.
One lesbian posted pictures of her and her buddy making out under the Reagan portrait in the White House with both hands raised, flipping off Reagan.
Obama, gay pride.
Okay, Klaus, no, he's really revved up here, folks.
Klaus Nomi, let's hear it for the late, great Klaus Nomi died August 6, 1983, in the middle of Reagan's first term.
All the gay community.
I remember it, folks.
I was working in Sacramento in 1984, and the gay community blamed Reagan for AIDS because he never talked about it, they said.
I never did understand the actual, they say Reagan's responsible for it.
Then what was Reagan doing that we didn't know about?
That was always my reaction.
Anyway, it is true.
An attache of important gay people from Philadelphia made a trip to Washington as invited guests of President Obama for the White House's first ever gay pride reception.
They danced to the sounds of the Marine Corps band that Obama brought in there.
They dined on crab cakes and canopies.
They hand-delivered letters from concerned citizens.
And some of them took advantage of photo opportunities to give the late President Reagan a middle finger and their photos of it.
Philadelphia gay news publisher Mark Siegel said, it's not a gesture that I would use in the White House when representing our city and community, but a lot of people did.
I have friends that work in that building.
I'm not going to do something that could embarrass them or that could somehow damage a campaign that's so important or be on your best behavior, my staff told me.
And I think they know me too.
I wouldn't do it.
Now, this guy, Siegel, Mark Siegel, gay pride publisher and so forth, he said he wouldn't do it, and he was asking others not to do it, but they did it anyway.
And they posted Facebook photos.
And Drudge posted this story of, I think, from Philly.com and immediately just shut down the website.
So the Weekly Standard had the details I just shared with you.
And theblaze.com went and got some of the pictures.
And there's a woman named Zoe Strauss, who was part of the group.
She's pictured flipping Reagan's portrait off and making out with her wife, husband, girlfriend.
I don't know, under the portrait of Reagan in the White House.
And the news has now gone viral.
It's out there, as we have pretty much guaranteed that.
Now, a companion story.
Do you remember, ladies and gentlemen, last November, I made a big deal with that.
And I remain surprised.
I can't believe, and I really mean this, I can't believe that this was not focused on more.
Not by the mainstream media, of course, but rather by conservative media.
This was a column by Thomas B. Ensel, who used to write for the Washington Post, now big at the Huffing and Puffington Post.
And he had a piece in the New York Times, which means the regime wanted it there.
He works for Obama in a way, but there's a tie-in.
And the piece, your regular listener here, you've heard me reference it many times, but it stayed in its own vacuum.
The piece was a tantamount admission that the Obama campaign had written off the working white voters block, just written them off.
They were the bitter clingers.
They knew back in November that they were not, they're not even going to campaign for the working white voters of America.
And that was so stunning to me to have an incumbent president instruct, or his campaign instruct one of their acolytes to head to the op-ed pages of the New York Times and admit that they weren't going to seek the votes of white working class voters, Reagan Democrat.
A lot of these people are Democrats.
They're working class blue-collar Democrats.
They were being written off.
And the majority of them voted for Obama in 2008.
Now, this takes me to this piece by David Paul Kuhn at Real Clear Politics.
He's the chief political correspondent for Real Clear Politics.
And he's the author of a book, The Neglected Voter, White Men and the Democrat Dilemma.
And he builds on it.
Listen to this.
President Kardashian does not currently have enough white support to win reelection, even if he retains his minority base from 2008.
At the same time, electoral data indicate that Mitt Romney has not yet attracted enough of these white voters to capitalize on Obama's weakness.
Weird, that is, because MSNBC just suspended the politico guy, or Politico just suspended a political guy, was on MSNBC.
Some black reporter for the Politico said, eh, Romney, you can tell he's just not comfortable except around white people who were talking about Romney's appearance at the Latino convention.
This guy said, you can just tell Romney doesn't like being around anybody but white people.
Let me tell you something.
I'm uncomfortable in a room of white liberals.
It's liberals that make me uncomfortable and feel out of place.
It's not racially oriented stuff.
Anyway, this guy, the politico supposedly has suspended him, probably the same degree that NBC employees who doctor tapes get suspended.
Pundits often note that Romney can't win with his current level of Hispanic support.
And it may be true, but so's the converse.
Obama cannot win with his level of white support unless white swing voters withhold their votes from Romney as well.
Well, what are the odds of that?
What are the odds of white swing voters not voting?
Today, fewer whites back Obama than any Democrat candidate since Walter Mondo.
Romney does not need to emulate Reagan to win.
Should he match Reagan's share of the white vote in 1984, Romney would rout Obama.
That's how bad it is.
They knew back in November that the white working class vote was lost.
But this is a stunning statistic.
Fewer whites back.
Now, this guy was going to end all of this.
He was going to end the racial divide.
He was going to end the divide, the partisan divide.
And of course, we all know that it's gotten worse.
Now, America has changed since the days of Ronaldo's Magnus.
Non-Hispanic whites were 89% of the electorate when Reagan first won the White House in 1980.
They were 85% of the electorate in 1998.
By 2008, whites were 74%, and that shift has upended the electoral landscape.
Hey, look at the loser, for example, Michael Dukakis.
In 1988, George H.W. Bush's margin of victory exceeded Obama's in 2008.
But if Obama, did you know that?
Did you know in 1988, Bush 41 won by a bigger margin Obama did in 2008?
But if Obama's level of white support in 2012 equals Dukakis and all else remains the same from 2008, Obama would likely narrowly win.
He'd lack a mandate.
He'd risk immediate lame duck status, but he would survive with white support that once surrendered Democrats unless what if Obama doesn't even match Dukakis with whites?
That's the dynamic of 2012, and that's what Obama faces.
This electorate has a white floor, and it's broken for this president.
Democrats can't depend on demographics to save them.
And that's what Obama is to peace.
He's depending on a coalition of every fringe minority you can find out there.
And he's written off the American mainstream.
Not racially, but demographically and politically.
He's written them off.
You know, the United Nations is thinking, the United Nations is thinking of saying publicly Obama should give back his peace prize because of the drone attacks.
I'm not kidding.
I got this story coming up in the stack.
Obama's, my point is he's losing.
Support everywhere you turn.
Now, Mr. Kuhn says the white margin to watch is 6139.
That's the rough break-even point.
Obama likely needs more than 39% of the white vote to reassure himself of winning election.
Romney needs 61% of whites to assure Obama's defeat, or at least 60.5%.
But as we sit here now, and this is a result of culminating a lot of, collating a lot of polling data, Obama's white support right now is gone.
Doesn't have a prayer.
This could be why Peter Orzog, the former head of the Obama Office of Management and Budget, is calling for voting to be made mandatory to make sure Obama gets the black and Hispanic turnout that he needs.
He is actually suggesting that.
I've got to take a quick time out.
We'll be back as Open Line Friday rolls on, right after this.
Here it is from the UK Guardian.
Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law says a UN rapporteur.
U.S. policy using drone strikes to carry out targeted killings may encourage other states to flout international law.
Christoph Heinz, U.N. special rapporteur on extra judicial killings, saying that this is not good.
It's going to encourage other people to emulate this.
And he went on to suggest that a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Hussein Obama, might be guilty of war crimes by using these drones and maybe should have his Nobel Prize taken away.
Look at what he is.
Obama had to run around puffing out his skinny chest, bragging about his marvelous drone strikes.
He leaked it for books.
He leaked it to portray this tough guy, John Wayne image.
He leaked it for his reelection.
He basically went out and said that he was the de facto assassin.
He's sitting in the room.
This is what Axelod said.
He's sitting in the room, and they got this book of terrorists in Obama.
Yep, yep.
I want you to kill him and kill him and wipe him.
That's how they portray this as happening.
Except in the real world, people who order kills or carry them out are supposed to remain out of sight.
It's called plausible deniability.
But Obama's out there bragging about all of this stuff.
Now the entire world is looking into this not-so-secret image enhancement program that we've got, the drone program, and they're getting a little ticked off.
Obama's losing the world, in addition to America.
What, are you shocked?
What are you, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What are you laughing at in there?
Sternly can't believe I'm going to take a phone call this early.
I normally don't take it for first hour.
It's Open Line Friday.
I always try to go to the phones in the first hour.
I don't always make it, but I always try.
On Friday, this is Paul in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania.
How are you, sir?
Welcome.
I'm wonderful, Rush.
And the more important thing is, how are you?
I'm cool.
Everything's okay, Dory.
Nobody would care.
If I told you anything other than that, it'd cause a national panic.
God bless Rush Lindbaugh now, today, and always.
Thank you very much.
This is a very quick.
Sternly, I thought he was going to laugh right off his chair.
I'm a first-time caller, but maybe a memorable caller.
What does he mean?
I'm talking about John Doehner and other pundits.
Don't spike the football with the healthcare thing.
Are you really asking or are you asking it rhetorically?
Rhetorically.
Okay.
He's basically saying, let's not gloat.
That's what spiking the football.
We're going to spike the football means that we're not going to taunt.
We're not going to taunt.
We're not going to gloat.
We're not going to have the ref throw a yellow flag on us after we score the touchdown.
What was Queen Nancy doing when they ran this thing through on Christmas Eve and then just a little bit later marched up Capitol Hill with the ding-dong gavel that they use in the carnival department?
I understand, but you see, if we do that, the independents will get mad at us and vote for more communism.
Well, that's what the consultants tell our guys.
Well, they're wrong.
So you want a little gloating.
You want a little celebrating.
I've been celebrating my whole life because I'm a winner.
I'm 69 years old.
Look, it's a character thing.
I understand what Boehner's saying.
In fact, after the 2002 midterms, you might get mad at me for this.
2002 midterms, I was on NBC's election night coverage with Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert, and it was a Republican sweep, and both those guys were stunned.
The first House races, midterm elections in a president's first term usually go against him.
And the conventional wisdom was that Bush was going to lose 9-11.
Conventional wisdom was that history would be true to form and Republicans would lose a lot of seats in the House.
And it was just the opposite.
Because we're coming off the Wellstone Memorial.
And I, all night long, I'm watching the returns come in, and it's going the exact opposite way from what they thought.
It turned out to be huge.
And I was telling these guys why it happened.
And I loved Russert.
Brokaw, I like.
He's okay.
But they were clearly, they were shocked.
They get stuck in their narratives here.
And when the night was over, and it was my last spot, and they said, so what next, Rush?
And I said, it's important for the Republicans not to gloat about this.
From the standpoint, let's not act surprised we won.
That's what should have happened.
Let's not act surprised we scored a touchdown.
Let's not act like something that doesn't happen very much.
Let's act like winners, like it's something that we expect and move on and stick to the I didn't want to repeat in 1994 where we won big and then stopped teaching because we assumed everybody thought that we'd become the majority.
So I know what Boehner is saying is whether you agree with him or not, what he's really trying to express here is that we're better than Pelosi and that we have a little class here and that the country's in dire straits and this is not about us.
It's about saving the country from the direction we're headed under Obama and this is one step, but there's a lot to go.
But if you want to go out there and spike the football, you go right ahead.
I'm going to spike the football.
I'm going to have my little fun with it if that happens.
And I could never be mad at you, Rush.
You are running the Institute of Conservatism.
You're the professor of conservatism.
I just look forward every day to listening to you and gaining your knowledge that you share with everyone.
Yeah, it's what my wife Catherine says to me about once a year.
I guarantee you.
I guarantee you.
I'm just looking so forward to the coming weeks and the coming campaign.
Could I ask you one other question?
Sure.
By the way, it's open on Friday.
That's what's for.
Okay.
And I'm speaking personally.
In the 10 election, I worked about three months for the Republican Party in the 10 election.
And I found out, just being on the phones, what a big difference that it can make.
I found out, just using my head a little bit, in my own family, there's two people in my family that have never voted.
Can you believe that?
Two people, and they know how I feel.
Well, I guarantee you, they're voting.
And I'm taking that.
Well, this is great because you found out, A, it feels good.
B, you mattered, you were a factor, but B, it does matter.
It's fundamentally important to do so.
And I'm, well, I'm glad that you did that.
Spread that word.
By the way, if you're going to, I want to get an indication from you.
If you're going to spike the football, what is that?
What are you going to do?
If we get a ruling that you like, how are you going to celebrate?
How am I going to celebrate?
I'm going to celebrate by telling all my friends, you know, all my acquaintances, just sharing it.
Yeah, but what are you going to do?
Like, what we all ought to do, we ought to go out there and pop a cork.
Well, okay, hop popcorn, go out and swig some big gulps, eat some trans fat.
I came up with a good one for Mayor Dunesberg anyway.
You know, I'd have come up with, they'd have probably come out with a piggyback, you know, where you get one, you get one free, a piggyback.
You know, that wouldn't.
Yeah, they're just going to fit, you know, the 15-ounce cups and sell them twice.
Yeah.
If everyone's listening will look in their family, and if they can get one person, just one in their family, to get out there that hasn't gotten out there before, I'm going to drive two of them to the polls.
Well, that's superb.
That is, you know, one of our great sponsors here, Freedom Works.
That's what they do.
Put people like you together with other people who want to bring about that result.
Well, that's cool.
This spike in the footballs.
I knew when Boehner said that there were going to be some people not happy about it because it is a huge deal if we get to meet this.
I mean, it's monumental.
It's going to rank right up there with one of the most important things ever happened to save the country.
And it is worth feeling really, really good about.
I understand.
Look at folks.
It's inside the Beltway.
The liberals run that show.
They run everything inside the Beltway.
And it's, I guarantee you, they're being advised by consultants: don't gloat, don't spike the football, tick off the independents Obama's personally liked.
People aren't going to look at this as a personal defeat for Obama.
I can hear it all now.
By the way, I have it on good authority.
I had a powerful, influential member of the media.
I had a super secret phone call this morning from the highest levels of the Republican establishment.
I'm going to tell you what I was told: that nobody knows how the court's going to rule.
That the person I talked to thinks it's highly unlikely that Obama knows.
I said, you really think Kagan or Sotomayor hasn't called him?
Kagan, you really think?
No, I really.
Court's done a pretty good job of maintaining security like this.
Okay, fine.
And then I was told that if the mandate is thrown out, if the mandate's found unconstitutional, that the Republicans are going to move immediately to ban the rest of it.
Not replace it.
They are going to move to ban the rest of it.
If only the mandate goes down, they're going to immediately move to ban the rest of it.
Now, you have to keep in mind, they don't have the votes right now to get rid of anything.
They're just the majority in the House.
They can't control what the Senate does, and they don't have enough votes to override Obama.
But I think that I was told the truth.
I think if the mandate goes down, I think House Republicans will make a huge show next week of going after the rest of the bill.
If the whole thing is upheld, I think they're going to make a massive move to repeal the whole thing because, as I was told, they know they're very confident of the polling data, and only 30% of the American people want this.
They are, I'm just telling you what I was told, time will tell.
But it's well understood at the highest levels inside the beltway that I can't be spun.
So I'm pretty confident that what I was told is truthful and heartfelt.
Now, beyond making a big show out of repealing the whole thing, if there is an action to follow, we'll all have to wait and see.
Time will tell, and it won't be very long.
So you sit tight.
I got to take quick time out.
We'll come back and continue after this.
Folks, I tell you, if you want to spike the football next week, if the ruling on health care goes our way, you go right ahead.
If there is anything worth celebrating out there, it's liberty.
If there's anything worth celebrating, it's our freedom.
And we don't get to celebrate that enough.
We don't take the time to celebrate that enough.
So you want to spike the football, you go right ahead because if this ruling comes, you think the other side's just going to sit there and whimper away?
They are going to be out there.
They've already got the plan.
They're going to try to scare everybody to death with what you're not going to get health care.
You're not going to be able to afford it.
You're going to die.
Grandma's going to die.
Grandpa's going to die.
You wait.
They're going to be lording this thing up with scare tactics like you haven't seen if this thing goes.
And it's going to become their number one campaign issue.
And I'm going to tell you what it's going to be.
It's going to be a variation of five people just said that you can't have health care while they keep theirs.
Five people just said.
In fact, it's going to be five guys.
Four white guys and a misdirected black guy is what they'll say.
Four white guys and an Uncle Tom just told you that you can't have health care.
President Obama gave you health care.
First president of 100 years.
And five guys in the Supreme Court have just taken it away from you.
It's going to be bloody what you can keep your you'll be able to.
That's the point.
You'll be able to keep everything if this thing goes down the tubes.
You don't keep your doctor.
You don't keep your plan if it is fully implemented.
Five rich Republicans took your health care away from you, and they have theirs.
They didn't lose theirs because they're on a government plan that was just like what Obama tried to give you.
You wait.
There's a part of me that's always believed, since the thing is so unpopular anyway, that Obama wouldn't mind it going down.
And then he can just say, you know what?
The hell with this incremental stuff?
I'm just going to go single payer from the get-go.
I'm just going to go straight for the whole ball of wax.
If it goes down, who's next?
Noel in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network and Open Line Friday.
Well, Mega Davis Rush from the swing state of Virginia.
Does the administration think that Latinos are stupid and that they won't see the pandering for what it is?
Well, can you let's let me ask the question a different way.
Does the administration think that African Americans are so stupid they will not see that Obama's pandering to him?
He gets 93, 95%, every Democrat does, of a black vote every presidential election.
I only got some polling data where Obama's down 20 points in North Carolina among blacks now, but now is not Election Day.
Look, this is the question, Noel.
This is the question about everything.
This is the question that we all are asking.
Not just about Latinos.
We ask the question, has the citizenry finally devolved to the point that they would rather not work and be taken care of?
That's what it boils down to.
That's the overriding question that we ask in fear every time we start thinking about this next election.
And Obama has clearly rolled the dice and said, yeah, there are more people that want to not work and sit around and be taken care of by me than there are people who want to assume responsibility for themselves.
That's what he's banking on.
Right.
Well, I say, I have a long time, Lister.
This is my first time talking to you.
It's been an honor.
Well, I appreciate that.
I really thank you.
Thanks very much.
It's a frustrating thing to watch never-ending pandering.
But you never know until Election Day.
But the history is that it's not so much the ethnic pandering, it's the ideological pandering.
It's the assumption that there are people that can't or won't assume self-responsibility.
This is what's always been the rub.
The Democrat Party encourages that.
The Democrat Party sponsors it.
The Democrat Party applauds you checking out.
To them, you're just admitting you don't have a fair shot anyway, the dick's stacked against you, Wall Street and a 1%, the Republicans run everything.
You smart enough to know the only chance you have at fairness is let the Democrats take care of you.
They sponsor it.
They promote it.
And in their minds, they think they've been pretty successful at it.
I don't think we've lost the country.
I think we're close, but I don't think we've lost it in that way.
But all of the founders have written variations, and individuals who are not part of the founding fathers studied this country, like Tocqueville and others, have all written that once the people discover that they can vote themselves money from the Treasury, that's the beginning of the end.
And once that number reaches a majority, then the great experiment known as America begins to crumble.
Everybody knows this.
The question is, are we there?
And the election of Obama made people, oh, geez, it looks, we are.
But then, no, not necessarily.
People voted for Obama for a host of reasons.
One, because he's black and they wanted to wash away their own guilt.
He's black.
He's going to end racism in America.
And then we're going to get along if we elect the black guy because he's going to show that we're not a racist country.
Or, I hate Bush.
I hate the ones.
I don't like the condition of the country.
Believe this malarkey about the economy going down and tubes.
But there wasn't a whole lot of support for Obama that was specific to issues.
And that's coming back to bite him now.
We will be back.
Don't go you know talking about uh pandering to Hispanics if I were if I were Hispanic, you know what would offend me is being compared to an illegal every time Obama and the Democrats start talking about Hispanics.
The assumption is that they're all illegal, they're all being discriminated against, and they are all that that's what would bother me.
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